Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home
Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home
In July 1959, at the American National Exhibition in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park, Vice President Richard Nixon stepped into a model suburban kitchen and found himself in a now-famous impromptu exchange with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Known as the “Kitchen Debate,” the moment became emblematic of Cold War tensions — not over missiles or military power,...